Benjamin Dwyer

As one of the leading figures from the younger generation of Irish composers, a virtuoso guitarist and an innovative musicologist and curator, Benjamin Dwyer is one of the most multifaceted artists working today. He is a regular contributor to Irish national radio and television, and he is currently at work on a book surveying the guitar music of Benjamin Britten. He is an elected a member of Aosdána and in 2009, the Royal Academy of Music (London) awarded Dwyer with the Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), an honor bestowed upon those former students deemed 'to have made a significant contribution to the music profession'. Dwyer is at the forefront of promoting and engaging critically with contemporary music. He is Founder and Director of Ireland's leading contemporary music event MUSIC21, which has been running for almost two decades, and the new music ensemble VOX21. Benjamin Dwyer earned a PhD in Composition from Queen's University (Belfast), an MMus in Performance from the Royal Academy of Music (London), and a BMus Hons from Trinity College Dublin. He is on the faculty of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. www.benjamindwyer.com